As we were to get off the ship for a 7:30am Excursion we were up pretty early as we had to be down to the theatre by 7:00am to clear customs. Tunisia needed to see each person plus their passport that was going to enter the country. So about 6am when our breakfast was delivered, we started watching the progress of the ship on the in-room television and we saw this about face!
Soon after the captain came on the overhead speaker to announce that 1. we were not going to Tunis, 2. we are high tailing it out of the area due to high winds and rough seas 3. he would have been a “cowboy” (imagine that with an Irish accent) if he attempted to enter the narrow channel circled with this large ship due to the prevailing wind speed (50 knots). So we had another day at sea! Great for me as now I have time for a manicure!
Now, an old adage is “red sunset at night, sailors delight, red sunrise in morn, sailors take warn”. The interesting thing is on this day, we had a beautiful red sunrise and flat sea – was that an indicator of what was to come that day???
